 The Ultra Modest. Dyess, Arkansas is home to the boyhood home of music legend Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash fans come from all over the world to see this very modest home and learn about Dyess Colony. Established as a Depression-era agricultural resettlement community, it's what brought the Cash family here in the 1930s. Efforts to restore the colony began in 2009. Now you can visit Johnny Cash's home and the theater, which is a museum and the visitor center.